The name, beli potok, is descriptive, meaning "white creek" in Serbian.

Arroyo de los Pilarcitos means "creek of little pillars."

The name is a corruption of a word in the language of the local indigenous peoples meaning "middle creek" (the original was something like Lawi-sahquick).

The name the place came from the Visayan word Pangpang which means valley or creek.

In fact, the name of the town means literally "almond creek".

The name Sandavágur means sandy creek and refers to the beach down by the inlet.

The name comes from the language Náhuatl, that means "Black creek ".

This word in the Unami dialect meant large creek.

In the Spanish language arroyo seco means "dry creek".

The name of the city means creek in Arabic as the town is located on a creek.